Abstract: A method of coating a web comprising passing a stream of coating material through an opening to form a layer on the web and thereafter passing the material through two pressure zones, the first of which is convergent and the second being divergent.

Abstract: A method of processing a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material by processing a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material wherein generation of stain can be suppressed at unexposed portions even when prolonged continuous processing is conducted and storage stability of the cyan dye under high temperature and high humidity is improved.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material in which a DIR compound capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor or precursor thereof by the reaction with an oxidized form of a color developing agent is employed in combination with a non-diffusible dye and which sastisfies Condition A and B recited in the specification.By using the color light-sensitive material according to the present invention, the sharpness, particularly the edge effect (including the fringe effect and the border effect) of a photographic image has been greatly improved.

Abstract: A developing method wherein a developer layer formed on a developer feeding carrier is conveyed, into an oscillating electric field, and an electrostatic latent image on an image retainer is developed by the developer of the developer layer inside the oscillating electric field. The developer has carrier particles and toner particles and the average particle size of the carrier particles is from 5 to 50 .mu.m. The average particle size of the toner particles is up to 20 .mu.m. The carrier particle and the toner particle are sphered.

Abstract: A color image forming apparatus having a photosensitive drum and a plurality of developing devices. The developing devices are accommodated removably in an integral casing. The integral casing can be held in a fixed position with respect to the photosensitive drum and moved apart from the photosensitive drum. The developing devices can be mounted independently of one another in an adjustable manner or mounting reference members respectively, which are mounted in the integral casing.

Abstract: Present invention provides a photosensitive material processing apparatus having an outside unit, an inside unit and a photosensitive material transport unit, in which both the outside unit and the inside unit are so shaped as to be a complementary figure with each other and the inside unit can position in the outside unit. The photosensitive material transport unit having a plurality of rollers for transporting the photosensitive material in a sandwiching manner therebetween. The plurality of rollers are divided into two groups of which the first group is provided to the outside unit and the second group is provided to the inside unit. The inside unit can be pulled out with the second group rollers from the outside unit.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material improved in the color fastness of yellow dye images against light is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layers containing a compound represented by General Formula [I] and a yellow coupler represented by General Formula [II]: ##STR1## wherein J is an alkylene group, R.sub.1 through R.sub.3 are each substituents and n is an integer 1 to 3, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 are each a hydrogen atom or substituents and R.sub.13 is a hydrogen atom or a substituent and Z.sub.1 is a group capable of being splitted of from the coupler residue upon reaction of the coupler with the oxidized product of a color developing agent.

Abstract: A method for processing silver halide photographic materials is disclosed. In this method a silver halide photographic material is developed in the presence of at least one compound represented by the following Formula [Ia] or [Ib]: ##STR1## wherein Ar is a benzene or naphthalene ring, F is a fluorine atom, Y and Y' are substituents, X is a bivalent atom or a bivalent linkage group. The compound may be contained in a processing solution or in the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material to be processed. A fog of the silver halide photographic material, especially a fog due to a storage of the materials at a high temperature can be considerably decreased.

Abstract: Disclosed is a radiation image storage panel having at least one stimulable phosphor layer on a support and a protective layer provided on the stimulable phosphor layer, wherein the protective layer comprises at least two layers of which regains under a relative humidity of 90% on a sorption isotherm at 25.degree. C. are different by 0.5% or more.According to this invention, a radiation image storage panel which has good humidity resistance and can be used for a long term is obtained.

Abstract: A method for increasing color-fastness of organic coloring matters against light is disclosed. The color-fastness of the organic coloring matter of which absorption maximum is the region from 400 nm to 700 nm is increased by coexisting with a metal complex represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 R.sub.2, R.sub.1 ' and R.sub.2 ' are a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X and X' are O or S, Y is O, S, SO or SO.sub.2 and M is a metal atom.The method adapts to improve the fastness of color images of silver halide photographic materials. In this case, the organic coloring matter is a dyestuff formed by coupling a color forming coupler with an oxidation product of a color developing agent in the silver halide color photographic material or a dyestuff diffused to a receiving layer of the diffusion transfer silver halide color photographic material.

Abstract: A focal length switching type camera wherein the focal length switching operation is initiated by a focal length switching and operating device, and a motor for driving a moving device is energized according to information from the focal length switching and operating device. The moving device moves a lens unit for holding a lens in a direction of an optical axis.

Abstract: A method of reading out a radiographic image by storing radiation energy corresponding to a radiographic image on a stimulative phosphor layer on a panel, scanning the layer with a semi-conductor laser to release the energy as fluorescence, and detecting the fluorescence to form an image, wherein wavelengths having an intensity lower than an excitation wavelength intensity of said laser are removed by optical means before scanning the layer.

Abstract: A method of discriminating pictures, wherein a picture is binary-coded. The variation in the number of foreground pixels constituting foreground pixel regions within a discrimination unit area is determined. Alternatively the variation in the distance between said foreground pixel regions is determined. It is then determined by a known relationship whether the discrimination unit area is of a dot gradation picture or not. If the picture is not a dot gradation picture, the rate of background is measured to determine whether the above discrimination unit area is of a line picture or of a continuous tone picture.

Abstract: A photoreceptor having a photoconductive layer, an electrically insulating layer, an electrically conductive layer, and a color separation filter layer. The photoconductive layer comprises a charge generating material layer and a charge transporting material layer and the electrically insulating layer has a uniform electric charge thereon and is located at one side of the photoconductive layer. The electrically conductive layer is disposed at the side of the photoconductive layer opposite to that on which the electrically insulating layer is located. The color separation filter layer has a plurality of different kinds of color separation filters which are arranged close to one another and the layer is disposed at one side of the photoconductive layer whereby the photoconductive layer is imagewise exposed through the color the separation filters.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide photographic material by processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing at least a silver halide emulsion layer comprising a silver halide grain essentially consisting of silver chlorobromide and a binder having a swelling rate of T 1/2 of 2 sec. to 30 sec. The color developer contains a n-hydroxyalkyl-p-phenylenediamine derivative at a temperature not less than 30.degree. C. for a time not more than 150 sec. The time and temperature are effective to process the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material without decreasing the stability of the resulting dye image.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the heat treatment of a powdery material wherein a flow-circling chamber circles round a powdery material-dispersing airflow and subsequently blows the airflow from a circling flow-blowing nozzle round in the proximity of the inside wall of the flow-circling chamber forming a hollow cone flow. A heated airflow conducting means concurrently applies a heated airflow to the periphery of the hollow cone flow and the material-dispersing airflow is conducted into a heat-treatment chamber wherein the heated airflow is conducted in the same direction as the circling direction of the hollow cone flow.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member having a photesensitive layer containing an azo compound represented by the following Formula [I],Formula [I] ##STR1## wherein Y.sub.1, Y.sub.2, Y.sub.3 and Y.sub.4 each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or a halogen atom; A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 each represents ##STR2## wherein Z is a group of atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic carbocyclic ring of a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic ring; Q.sub.3 is substituted or unsubstituted carbamoyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted sulfamoyl group; R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted carbamoyl group, a carboxyl group, a carboxyl group or ester group thereof, or a cyano group; A' is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; and R.sub.2 and R.sub.

Abstract: A fixing device including a fixing roller and a pressure member rotatable in pressure-contact with said fixing roller, out of which at least one is provided with a heater and is capable of fixing an image-recorded material bearing thereon, toner is passed through between said fixing roller and said pressure member; said fixing device characterized in that at least one of said heaters is made in the bar-like form and served as a supporting shaft for rotating said fixing roller or said pressure member and can further be taken out and put in.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus wherein an image exposure device, a whole surface exposure device by light of specific colors and a developing device, are disposed facing a photosensitive member having a surface insulating layer and provided with a color separation function in its surface. In the developing device, the operating condition is changed according to image forming modes. By the combination of the whole surface exposure and development, from an original image in specific colors a visible image in other colors can be provided.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which is excellent in raw-stock preservability, physical characteristics of its layers such as glossiness, scratch resistance, and degree of swelling and whose sensitivity changes very little with time after manufacture comprising a compound represented by Formula [I] of the specification, hardened with at least one of the compounds represented by Formula [II] or [III] of the specification. The storage stability is further improved when at least one of the cyan couplers represented by Formula [IX] or [X] of the specification is present.